The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-09-03

MILAN. TENNESSEE
NEWS IN BRIEF.
COmvalsd from Various Sources.
AT Petersburg, W. Va, ex-Congress-
man Rustace Gibson has been Jailed for !
contempt OF court.
REV. HOWARD F. DoANE, the American
missionary who was imprisoned on the
Caroline Islands, has been released.
Primer FERDINAND Of Bulgaria is de-
pressed IN consequence Of the isolation in
which he finds himself at home and abroad.
THE news Of the serious and perhaps
fatal illness Of the Ameer of Afghanistan
has aroused Russian and English cupidity
once more in connection with that coun-
try.
THE Canadian Knights Of Labor are
about taking steps to secure the autonomy
of the order in the Dominion without inn
pairing their connection with the general
assembly.
JOHN ANDERSEN, a bartender in Billy
ThOmpSon's restaurant at Gloucester, N.
j., received word on the night of the Odd
that by the death Of his mother in Copen-
hagen he is heir to 100000.
IT is claimed a natural flow of both oil
and gas has been discovered near Fort
Smelling, MINI. 1t is said that oil comes to
Che surface in such quantities that it can
easily be gathered in the crude state
THE Russian Prince Pierre Wittgensten
died at Denlon, near Brest, of grief for
his wife, the daughter of Breton fisher
man, whom he had educated. He leaves
his vast fortune to Princess Hohenlohe.
! A FLOATING exhibition of Spanish prod
0cts will shortly leave Valencia for South
America and will visit all the principaI
South American seaports. The object is
to open up new markets for Spanish goods.
ARCHIBALD FORBES, the well-known
war correspondent, who was to lecture in
this country next fall, has cabled his man
ager, J. B. Pond, that his health is wrecked
and that all of his engagements must be
Cancelled.
: THE sale Of one thousand.mile tickets,
suspended when the Interstate Commerce
act went into force, has been resumed by
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The
rate is twenty dollars, the same prevailing
before the suspension.
0
} JESSE PoMERoY, the NOTORIOUS Massa-
chusetts "boy murderer" was discovered
in a well-planned and nearly executed at
tempt to escape from the Charlestown
(Mass.) penitentiary, on the 9th, and was
removed to closer quarters.
YOKOHAMA advices state that the draft
of the japanese Civil Code, having been
completed and printed, it is now being
translated into English and French. This
work must be accomplished before the re-
vision of treaties can be resumed.
Hon. Mr.. LARIvIERE, Provincial Secre-
tary and member of the Government of
Manitoba, who is in Montreal, says that
the provincial government are determined
to build the Red River Valley railway at
any cost and in spite Of all opposition.
THE government of New South Wales
having offered 100000 acres of land to any
missionary society that will undertake to
civilized the natives, the Pope has directed
that immediate attention be paid to the
offer in order to forestall Protestant socie-
ties.
AS the result of an elaborate calculation,
II is found that the bonded debt of the
United States has been decreased at the
rate of $2.07 for every second, or for every
swing Of the pendulum, for the entire
period from August 81, 1855, to July 81,
1887.
GENERAL JOHN c. BLACK, Commissioners
of Pensions, is reported to be quite i'll with
inflammatory rheumatism at the residence
of Hon. Stilson Hutchins, at Weir, N. H
He is there as the guest of the New Hamp
shire veterans. Three physicians have
been in attendance.
JUDGE KUMLER, of the Cincinnati Court
of Common Pleas, has granted a manda.
mus on the application of the Union Labor
party, directing the Board of Elections tc
hereafter recognize the Union Labor party
in making appointments of clerks, regis
trars and judges Of election.
ERAsTUs WIMAN, of New York; Hon
Ben Butterworth, of Cincinnati, and Prof
Goodwin Smith, of Toronto, Ont, delivered
addresses before large audience in De
troit, Mich, on the evening of the 9th, OF
the subject of commercial union between
the United States and Canada.
MAYOR HEWITT of New York is de
termined to enforce the provisions of the
''fre-escape" law passed by the Legisla
ture last winter. He has instructed til,
corporation counsel to prosecute all hotel
Keepers who failed to place a rope Ions
enough to reach the ground in each room
of the house.
ACTING LAND COMMISSIONER Stock
sLAGER has taken the necessary steps t,
carry into effect Secretary Lamar's orde
directing restoration to settlement ant
entry of the unimproved indemnity selec
tion of the California & Oregon Railroad
Company in California. This will affec
some 100000 acres of land